China's eight traditional musical instruments

Gold, stone, soil, leather, silk, wood, gourd and bamboo.

China's eight traditional musical instruments each belong to different material categories.

Gold instruments include bells, bells, etc., which are made of metal; stone instruments such as jade chimes are made of special stones; earth instruments such as xun are made of clay; leather instruments such as county drums are made of animal leather

; Silk refers to musical instruments with silk threads vibrating on the strings to produce sound effects, such as guzheng and erhu; wood refers to percussion or blowing types made of wood, such as bangzi drums and panpipes.

叏(gǔ) is a type of wind pipe made from gourd shells.

The last category is bamboo, and within this category there are many traditional recorders or flutes with different tonal and functional characteristics, such as Xiao (xiāo) and Dizi.